On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:09:56 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 22/09/12 00:07, Brian Morrison wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000
> > Steven D'Aprano<st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> >
> >> Heavy metal: Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Наӥв
> >
> > Say that last one again? ;-)
>
>
> "Наӥв", very roughly pronounced something like "Narev". It's
> Russian.
>
> I assume that the umlaut over the и is just for the look, and
> doesn't change the pronunciation. Also, despite my mother being
> Russian, I actually can't speak a word of it, so I'm interpolating
> the pronunciation from that of the individual letters:
>
> Н is like English N in Not
> а is like English A in fAther
> и is like English I in machIne or E in mE
> в is like English V in Very
>
> I think the name means "Naive", or to use the older spelling, Naïve.
> Hey, I see what they did there! That's pretty clever.
>
>
Interesting. My original reply was actually to say that I couldn't see
that ӥ character using Claws-Mail under Windows, but it works with Claws
under Fedora. Not sure exactly what the problem is there ;-)
--
Brian Morrison
"I am not young enough to know everything"
Oscar Wilde
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